More than 7 million tickets will go on sale for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which is more than the number of tickets 1 (sell) in the 2004 Athens Games, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the 29th Olympiad (BOCOG) said on Friday.
Of the tickets, about 4.9 million, 2 70 per cent will be sold within China and the rest 30 per cent will be sold abroad.
“Since we have more 3 (seat) than Athens, we can sell 4 tickets,” said Rong Jun, an 5 (office) from the BOCOG Marketing Department.
It 6 (report) that Athens offered 5.3 million tickets 7 the 2004 Olympics.
“The 8 (open) ceremony will be held in the National Stadium, 9 is able to seat 91,000 people. Since 10 large number of seats will be taken by broadcasters and the media, there will be only about 60,000 for ordinary audience.”
